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1697 in science

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The year 1697 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Technology

  • August – Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, studies shipbuilding and other technologies in Holland as part of his incognito Grand Embassy to western Europe.

Organizations

  • January – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle becomes perpetual secretary of the French Academy of Sciences, in succession to Jean-Baptiste du Hamel.

Publications

  • First known publication of English physician Richard Boulton, A Treatise of the Reason of Muscular Motion.
  • William Dampier publishes A New Voyage Round the World in London.

Births

  • February 24 – Bernhard Siegfried Weiss, later known as Albinus, German-born Dutch anatomist (died 1770)
  • February 5 – William Smellie, Scottish obstetrician (died 1763)
  • September 23 – Andrew Plummer, Scottish physician and chemist (died 1756)

Deaths

  • January 26 – Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (born 1640)
  • March 1 – Francesco Redi, Tuscan physician and biologist (born 1626)
  • Late October – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch statesman and telescope maker (born 1628)
  • December 9 – Scipion Abeille, French surgeon and poet
  • Probable year – Gilbert Clerke, English mathematician, natural philosopher and theologian (born 1626)
  • Ann Baynard, English natural philosopher (died 1672)
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